Blackthorn
I'll Lock Up
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Woodrow Wilson styling:
They should have used Pears' Soap. I mean, if it was good enough to advertise on every seat...A man spraying the top of a bus with an anti-flu virus during the 1918 pandemic. (Davis/Getty Images)
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Looks like he is wearing some sort of ribbon or metal on his left lapel.I don't know the year, but this is Piaras Béaslaí a well known Irish poet, born in 1881
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I can't say for sure what that would be, but he was a veteran of the 1916 Rising and did 3 years in prison for it.Looks like he is wearing some sort of ribbon or metal on his left lapel.
I thought it might be some honor award bestowed him from his poetry.I can't say for sure what that would be, but he was a veteran of the 1916 Rising and did 3 years in prison for it.
It could be, I just don't know.I thought it might be some honor award bestowed him from his poetry.
If this were more in my price range...
This vintage Norddeutscher Lloyd Handelsmarine cap. I tend to favor HAPAG (Hamburg Amerika Linie) as I already have a HAPAG flag cap insignia which is what the NDL flag is on this cap:
This I found in Collector's Guild. Barring this, a decent quality repro would make me just as happy. (And yes, I would wear it.)
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Where's the pipe?
Jeez, even the children in that photo look like they would beat you up at the slightest provocation.